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Sun Outage Prediction
What is a Sun Outage and how will it affect me?
Sun outages are natural phenomenon that occurs when a satellite and a receiving earth station come directly in line with the sun. The sun’s energy interferes with the satellite’s signal and affects the signals received by the earth station. The affected signals may lead to poor or no reception of channels relying on the affected satellites.
StarHub TV receives most of our channels via satellite before broadcasting them to homes. Satellite transmission is subject to these environmental factors which are beyond the control of the broadcaster.
How often do sun outages occur?
Sun outages occur when a satellite and a receiving earth station come directly in line with the sun. Such a phenomenon will typically occur twice a year for each satellite. As our channels are received from different satellite sources, different channels may be affected at different times of the year.
What channels will be affected by the March 2023 Sun Outage?
Some satellites will experience transmission interference between 18 March 2023 to 22 March 2023. You may refer to the list below for the projected downtime (up to 2-10 mins.) of channels that are being transmitted by the affected satellites.
| Apstar 5 | Channels | Date | Start time | End |
| CinemaWorld HD HBO Signature HD HBO Family HD HBO HD HBO Hits HD | 18 March 2023 | 10:34 AM | 10:35 AM | |
| 19 March 2023 | 10:31 AM | 10:37 AM | ||
| 20 March 2023 | 10:30 AM | 10:37 AM | ||
| 21 March 2023 | 10:30 AM | 10:36 AM | ||
| 22 March 2023 | 10:31 AM | 10:35 AM |
| Apstar 7 | Channels | Date | Start time | End |
| Cinemax HD Nat Geo Wild HD STAR Chinese Channel HD Baby First TV GMA Life TV GMA Pinoy TV NBA TV HD | 18 March 2023 | 3:19 PM | 3:22 PM | |
| 19 March 2023 | 3:17 PM | 3:23 PM | ||
| 20 March 2023 | 3:16 PM | 3:23 PM | ||
| 21 March 2023 | 3:16 PM | 3:22 PM | ||
| 22 March 2023 | 3:18 PM | 3:21 PM |
| Asiasat 5 | Channels | Date | Start time | End |
| Euro News TV TV5MONDE Asie HD | 18 March 2023 | 1:27 PM | 1:30 PM | |
| 19 March 2023 | 1:25 PM | 1:31 PM | ||
| 20 March 2023 | 1:24 PM | 1:31 PM | ||
| 21 March 2023 | 1:24 PM | 1:30 PM | ||
| 22 March 2023 | 1:26 PM | 1:29 PM |
| Asiasat 7 | Channels | Date | Start time | End |
| Asianet Asianet Movies Boomerang HD Cartoon Network CNN HD DW (English) FOX News Channel Phoenix Chinese Channel HD Phoenix InfoNews Channel HD STAR Chinese Movies Legend WarnerTV HD Zee Cinema Zee TV | 18 March 2023 | 1:04 PM | 1:06 PM | |
| 19 March 2023 | 1:02 PM | 1:08 PM | ||
| 20 March 2023 | 1:01 PM | 1:08 PM | ||
| 21 March 2023 | 1:01 PM | 1:07 PM | ||
| 22 March 2023 | 1:02 PM | 1:06 PM |
| Asiasat 9 | Channels | Date | Start time | End |
| CTI TV HD TVB Xing He TVBS Asia TVBS-NEWS TvN HD | 18 March 2023 | 11:47 AM | 11:49 AM | |
| 19 March 2023 | 11:44 AM | 11:50 AM | ||
| 20 March 2023 | 11:44 AM | 11:50 AM | ||
| 21 March 2023 | 11:44 AM | 11:50 AM | ||
| 22 March 2023 | 11:45 AM | 11:48 AM |
| Chinasat 6D (Formerly Chinasat 6A) | Channels | Date | Start time | End |
| CCTV-4 HD | 18 March 2023 | 11:33 AM | 11:35 AM | |
| 19 March 2023 | 11:31 AM | 11:36 AM | ||
| 20 March 2023 | 11:30 AM | 11:37 AM | ||
| 21 March 2023 | 11:30 AM | 11:36 AM | ||
| 22 March 2023 | 11:31 AM | 11:34 AM |
| Chinasat 6B | Channels | Date | Start time | End |
| CGTN | 18 March 2023 | 12:17 PM | 12:19 PM | |
| 19 March 2023 | 12:15 PM | 12:21 PM | ||
| 20 March 2023 | 12:14 PM | 12:21 PM | ||
| 21 March 2023 | 12:14 PM | 12:20 PM | ||
| 22 March 2023 | 12:15 PM | 12:19 PM |
| IS 17 | Channels | Date | Start time | End |
| Vijay Kalaignar TV | 18 March 2023 | 4:07 PM | 4:10 PM | |
| 19 March 2023 | 4:05 PM | 4:11 PM | ||
| 20 March 2023 | 4:04 PM | 4:11 PM | ||
| 21 March 2023 | 4:04 PM | 4:10 PM | ||
| 22 March 2023 | 4:06 PM | 4:08 PM |
| IS 19 | Channels | Date | Start time | End |
| ANC BBC World News HD Cinema One Global NHK World Premium HD NHK World TV Nick JR Nickelodeon HD Paramount Network The Filipino Channel | 19 March 2023 | 8:28 AM | 8:34 AM | |
| 20 March 2023 | 8:27 AM | 8:34 AM | ||
| 21 March 2023 | 8:27 AM | 8:34 AM | ||
| 22 March 2023 | 8:28 AM | 8:32 AM |
| IS 20 | Channels | Date | Start time | End |
| ABC Australia | 17 March 2023 | 3:56 PM | 3:59 PM | |
| Arirang TV | 18 March 2023 | 3:54 PM | 4:00 PM | |
| COLORS | 20 March 2023 | 3:53 PM | 4:00 PM | |
| KBS World HD | 21 March 2023 | 3:53 PM | 3:59 PM | |
| Travelxp HD | 22 March 2023 | 3:55 PM | 3:57 PM |
| Measat 3 | Channels | Date | Start time | End |
| Animax Astro Warna BBC Earth HD BBC Lifestyle HD Blue Ant Entertainment HD Cbeebies HD Celestial Classic Movies HD Crime + Investigation HD DreamWorks HD FIGHT Sports HD GEM HD HISTORY HD HITS HD HITS Movies HD Lifetime HD SKY News HD Sony Entertainment Television SONY Max SPOTV SPOTV2 | 18 March 2023 | 2:10 PM | 2:12 PM | |
| 19 March 2023 | 2:08 PM | 2:14 PM | ||
| 20 March 2023 | 2:07 PM | 2:14 PM | ||
| 21 March 2023 | 2:07 PM | 2:13 PM | ||
| 22 March 2023 | 2:08 PM | 2:11 PM |